Benoît Brière
Acting
Biography
Benoît Brière (born June 20, 1965) is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the film Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction), for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 24th Genie Awards and a Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 6th Jutra Awards.
Born: June 20, 1965
Place of Birth: Longueuil, Québec, Canada
Known For
Sucré salé
Patrice Bélanger and his team are here to give Quebecers a little boost to their lives with this show where fun and pleasure prevail. With a front row seat to events happening across the province, the show is the reference for summer culture. Above and beyond the artists featured, the show puts our entire province in the spotlight.
1res fois
Two Quebec personalities candidly discuss the “firsts” that have marked their professional lives and shaped who they are both on and off camera. Our guests will also experience other unique “firsts” on the show. Emotions will run high as guests share personal secrets, reunite with long-lost friends, watch surprise variety numbers.
La Petite Vie
La petite vie was first a stage sketch of the comedy duo Ding et Dong, formed by Claude Meunier and Serge Thériault, and later a hit Quebec television sitcom aired by Radio-Canada from 1993 to 1999. In total, 59 episodes were created plus 3 specials, two for Christmas and one for New Year's 2000. It is to date the only Canadian TV show to ever gather more than 4 million viewers, a performance it achieved twice in 1995.
The Turtle Syndrome
What could the illness afflicting Henri Castagnette be? Filled with anxiety, the young man puts his fate in the hands of the off-puttingly exuberant Dr. Von Strudel. In The Turtle Syndrome, Samuel Cantin, author of the popular “motormouth” graphic novels Phobie des moments seuls and Whitehorse, recounts the story of an endearing anti-hero’s frenzied and hilarious medical appointment. Produced by the NFB, The Turtle Syndrome is part of the Comic Strip Chronicles collection.
Toopy and Binoo The Movie
After an escalation of blunders, Toopy and Dorothy, a comical genie, accidentally make Binoo’s beloved stuffed animal, Patchy-Patch, disappear. The trio immediately set out to find the fabulous land of “The Lost and Found” where Patchy-Patch is surely to be found. Along the way, the group meets twin seagulls looking for their father, and a magnificent Princess who has lost her dance partner. Together, and despite Toopy’s bumbling ways, they will try to find Patchy Patch and their lost loves.
Red Ketchup
The series is set in the mid-1980s, at the end of the Cold War. Red Ketchup is assigned the most perilous missions by the FBI, and he pulls them off every time. The sight of his hulking frame, red eyes and orange hair is enough to make enemies quake. He breezily and brazenly takes every risk to achieve his ends, usually causing heavy collateral damage along the way. The FBI regards him as a liability and sends him to distant lands hoping he will never return. But Red Ketchup always makes it back!
Projet Innocence
Stella, an intern with the Projet Innocence, is working on the case of a criminal who claims to be innocent of a murder he was convicted.
Empathie
Suzanne, a former criminologist turned psychiatrist, starts a new job at the Mont-Royal Psychiatric Institute, where she meets Mortimer, an intriguing intervention officer with whom she strikes up a friendship, and fascinating patients.
Madame Lebrun
A completely off-the-wall sitcom about a family matriarch, played by a man, whose favourite activity is meddling in the lives of her children and friends.
The Seat of the Soul
This Canadian science-fiction film takes place at the beginning of the 20th Century in an unnamed city where eager Jules is a member of a scientific team researching the secrets of immortality. The scientists uncover a buried pyramid containing an embalmed body with a heartbeat -- but minus a soul. Heading into the city at night, Jules hopes to locate the soul. He encounters Sophie who seems to have some answers to the mystery.
Filmography
as Philippe Fraser
as Jacques Dallaire
as Le calleur de bingo
as Daniel
as Camille Strel
as Red Ketchup (voice)
as Policier Dufresne (voix)
as Paparrazzi / Phoque 1 (voice)
as Tite-Bière
as Animateur
as Pierre-Olivier Chiasson
as Chef de la Confrérie
as François
as (voice) (English version)
as Dr. Gingras
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Self
as Joseph
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Commentateur sportif
as Adhémar Raynault
as Self
as Rodrigue (voice)
as Self
as Germaine Lebrun
as Narrateur
as Himself
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Marco Fortier
as Michel Marcotte
as Self
as Wilfrid Pelletier
as Coroner Boutet
as L'annonceur
as Self
as Alix
as Narrator
as Médecin
as Arsène Gagné
as Self
as Self
as Narrator (french version)
as Henri Giroux
as Momo
as Jambe de Bois
as Le Père Noël
as Self
as Pierre Chamberland
as Photographer
as Self
as Maurice (French version)
as Olivier Guimond
as Joseph
as Blaise Mélançon
as Angelo
as Caméraman-gourmand